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Researchers Warned About AIDS Grants

Posted by michael on from the read-no-evil dept.

winksmith writes "The NYTimes (free registration, etc.) is reporting that scientists researching STD's (including AIDS) must be careful in the wording of reports and particularly of grant requests. many have been verbally warned that phrases like: "sex workers," "men who sleep with men," "anal sex" and "needle exchange," may cause the government to withhold grant money."

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  1. stupidity, genetic and environmental by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    USA government, as any other, is enough stupid to do that, isn't it? Sex will never stop, but AIDS is out there. I used to think that politicians are dumb only in Eastern Europe, but now I feel better. I wonder how politicians buy condoms anyway, aren't they ashamed. Who actually told them that condoms make it secure of HIV? I think that's exactly People using phrases like the one mentioned above in their grant requests. Let us hope mentally normal people are more than the genetically and environmentally injured.